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Time to Bash Tesla Model 3

posted by martyb on Tuesday August 01 2017, @04:41AM   
from the production-needs-a-boost dept.

takyon writes:

Tesla is beginning to deliver a small number of Model 3 cars, but there are concerns that Tesla will not be able to produce enough cars to meet demand:

Wall Street finally got to see all the details of the Tesla Model 3 during the car's launch event Friday. So far investors have given it the thumbs down with the electric car maker's shares down more than 2 percent midday Monday.

"We believe the Model 3 was as good as or better than expected, and pricing was as expected with considerable initial upsell. That said, the rubber now hits the road, and the fundamental questions remain unanswered," Bernstein's Toni Sacconaghi wrote in a note to clients Monday. "CEO Elon Musk sounds increasingly squeamish about the production ramp." The analyst cited how the $35,000 Model 3 car will not be available until early 2018 with only a higher-priced $49,000 model available this year. He also noted Musk's comment to employees to prepare for "production hell."

Speaking of "production hell", Tesla employees in California are threatening to unionize:

Employees at the electric automaker's factory in Fremont, California, have been agitating for a union since Jose Moran, a production associate, wrote a Medium post in January detailing difficult work conditions at the flagship plant. The bulk of the demands has since centered on improving equipment to reduce workplace injuries.

[...] Musk originally called injury allegations at the Fremont plant "disingenuous or outright false" but has since told employees to report injuries directly to him.

Although the base price of the car is $35,000, that can rise to $55,000 or more after options.

Also at MarketWatch, Ars Technica, and CNET.

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• Re:Time to Bash? Re:Time to Bash? (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Tuesday August 01 2017, @06:14AM (2 children)

  by MostCynical (2589) on Tuesday August 01 2017, @06:14AM (#547534) Journal

  Assuming you can get a command prompt..

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• Re:Time to Bash? (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday August 01 2017, @10:58AM

  by c0lo (156) on Tuesday August 01 2017, @10:58AM (#547586) Journal

  Assuming you can get a command prompt..

  Ummm, well, that's a problem... with a petrol car, one may try to root it [youtube.com] (first 12 secs mildly NSFW - and the rest don't matter).
  I'll try to find a howto that works on EVs specifically.

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• Re:Time to Bash? (Score: 5, Interesting) by c0lo on Tuesday August 01 2017, @11:13AM

  by c0lo (156) on Tuesday August 01 2017, @11:13AM (#547587) Journal

  It may not be even that hard [jalopnik.com]

  Recently, an intrepid and curious Tesla owner found a hidden four-pin connector, and with a hunch and some trial-and-error work discovered that it is in fact an ethernet port, and wired up a standard ethernet cable to connect to it.

  What he discovered next is notable for how strangely familiar it all is to anyone with even a passing knowledge of computer networking:

  The car's internal 100 Mbps, full duplex ethernet network consists of 3 devices with assiged IP addresses in the 192.168.90.0 subnet, the center console, dashboard/nav screen and one more unknown device. Some ports and services that were open on the devices were 22 (SSH), 23 (telnet),53 (open domain), 80 (HTTP), 111 (rpcbind), 2049 (NFS), 6000 (X11). Port 80 was serving up a web page with the image or media of the current song being played. The operating system is modified version of Ubuntu using an ext3 filesystem.

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